Is it me, or does anyone else feel like they are living in a sci-fi movie?
Isn’t Beck preoccupied with the huge My Little Pony story?
Beck may be back from vaycay, but he’s nuttier than ever.
Freescale makes microcontrollers, chips that run everything from microwave ovens to the sensor that flips the screen in your iPad. They’re one of many suppliers, but to suggest that Pakistan would grab some semi chip designers or process engineers like this is just embarrassingly ignorant. People fly all over the place every day. Freescale has plants in China like every semi company.
Really, someone needs to get this guy some stronger meds.
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get for your efforts. A surprise in every box.
and figured it was probably true.
Oh, for f***'s sake.........
I have to admit from the cargo angle that something could have been in the cargo area being transported by the people from Freescale Semiconductor. Maybe something real high tech that someone really wanted their hands on. Just another posibility among many.
Stolen plane or a ruse...made to look like a stolen plane, but a secret deal to get a plane somewhere. We only saw brief photos of anxious family, and one would wonder that there is so little news coverage of THAT.
My question is, how did the NSA miss this, what with all their spying on everyone and stuff?
Where they important and valued employees? Yes.
Where they irreplaceable to the company? probably not.
Most smart thinking companies would never fly that many highly valued employees together on one flight.
My company never allows the President, CEO or Head of Technology together on any one flight.
Wasn’t there a government project called the Philadelphia Experiment which made a ship cloak during the 40’s?
I get the odd feeling that it will never be known what truly ever happened.
If it is a terrorist attack by the pilot he has got more publicity than a bombing.
Freescale is a leader in stealth aircraft technology.
Get back to me when he gets around to releasing the Reeeeeelly big information that would bring this government down, a bunch a Wednesdays ago, at the beginning of last year......
Whew!!!! fLew that one right by didn’t yuh Glenn? /s
Charlotan ....
Should go into business with Joseph Farah ....
I will assume the ROP earnestly believes that these techs have all the brains to indeed come up with some form of cloaking be it a type of paint, a shrink wrap, holographic projectors etc.
In the eyes of devout Islamic followers absurdly intent of getting their hands on the ways and means to exact massive death especially since they have to work around so many obstacles such as the pesky Mossad offing all their scientists and blowing things up it matters not that this so called Freescale Cloaker exists, these members of the ROP will get it if they even think it will serve their goals.
Its possible this was the whole and complete mission, steal the plane, get it up high enough that even the supplemental o2 runs out, all crew passes out and THEN plane descends, at least I for one hope that was the successful plan, to just knock everyone out.
They land on a sufficient airstrip, probably with no intention of taking off, then are transferred by another means, or the plane does take off in a diversionary direction without the passengers and is left somewhere else hidden or even made to crash so it would be thought that all passengers are now dead.
But Iran has its slave labor force to create in their minds cloaked drones or aircraft so they can destroy Israel.
the only cargo we’ve been told of that I’ve seen is a comment the aircraft was carrying an inordinate number of lithium batteries (leading to some speculation that overheated exploding batteries could cause a mid-air explosion).
As to Beck’s theory about Freescale, well, the employees were based in Malaysia so it would be easier and more economical to kidnap them from the parking lot at work than during an iffy planenapping. And if the plane was depressurized as has been discussed, how did they keep those 20 alive?
I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that it wasn’t what the plane was carrying - Beck didn’t go far enough - it was the technology OF the plane itself that is important. Why? For a little hands-on time for workarounds of Boing’s anti-hacking technology, in order to be able to weaponize ANY inflight 777. Farfetched? Recall Dec 2011, when Iran hacked one of our drones (which our CIA first denied) and had it fly itself into Iran and set down pretty as you please. but it’s just a wild guess, after all.
Seems to me the Freescale people were not designers but rather manufacturing type engineers.
And consider this: